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By Alexandra Meeks, CNN With summer nearing an end, the battle to get employees back into the office is getting a little more heated. About 70% of mid- to large-sized companies experimenting with hybrid work schedules have said they want employees back in the office for a set number of days each week. But many

By Aya Elamroussi, Paradise Afshar and Dakin Andone, CNN The first day for public schools students in Seattle is delayed after the teachers union became the latest in recent weeks to vote to go on strike, demanding more support for students with the greatest needs, workload balance and class size controls, along with better compensation.

By Jason Hanna, Melissa Alonso and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A man suspected of abducting and killing a Memphis teacher who was out jogging was temporarily ordered held without bond Wednesday on a murder charge that was added after her body was identified. Cleotha Henderson, accused of killing 34-year-old Eliza “Liza” Fletcher after kidnapping her in

By Amir Vera, Eric Levenson and Nouran Salahieh, CNN Myles Sanderson, the suspect in the mass stabbing in Canada, died Wednesday after going into “medical distress” after his arrest, according to Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore. Sanderson’s death means both suspects in the attack that rocked the Canadian province of Saskatchewan are

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Paradise Afshar, CNN A woman who embarked on a multi-day backpacking trip through the Grand Canyon National Park died on a trail Sunday, the park said. Delphine Martinez, 59, of Window Rock, Arizona, “became disoriented and later unconscious” while hiking along the Thunder River Trail and was not able to be

By Paradise Afshar, CNN A cruise ship passenger from Pennsylvania died Tuesday after being attacked by a shark while snorkeling with her family in the Bahamas, authorities said. The passenger, a mother in her 50s who was onboard the Royal Caribbean ship, Harmony of the Seas, was attacked in Green Cay, off the coast of

By Nouran Salahieh, Rachel Ramirez and Dakin Andone, CNN A record-breaking heat wave has baked the West for days — setting record high temperatures, fueling destructive wildfires and threatening rolling power shutoffs in California — and it could last even longer due to the effects of a strengthening hurricane along Mexico’s Pacific coast. “We are

By Elizabeth Wolfe and Jennifer Henderson, CNN Investigators have used genealogy technology to determine the killer of a Michigan woman who was missing for 33 years before her remains were identified using the same technique earlier this year, authorities said. Stacey Lyn Chahorski was reported missing in January 1989, but it took more than three

By Andy Rose, CNN Two officers with the Texas Department of Public Safety who were at the scene of the Uvalde school massacre have been suspended with pay and referred for formal investigation amid an internal review of law enforcement actions that day, the agency said Tuesday as students in the shaken community returned to

By Ella Nilsen, CNN The city of Las Vegas, New Mexico, will be able to use a nearby lake as a backup water supply, effectively extending its water countdown from 20 days to more than four months. A river and reservoir that supplied most of the city’s water were tainted by ashy sludge this summer

By Shimon Prokupecz, Matthew J. Friedman and Rachel Clarke, CNN The last time AJ Martinez was in school was May 24, when he was shot through the thigh as he hid under backpacks while a gunman murdered his two teachers and 19 fellow students at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas. He saw the shooter come

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN From life before European contact to the Trail of Tears to the modern-day tribal government, the Cherokee National History Museum tells the long, rich story of the Cherokee people. But one of the darkest chapters of Cherokee history remained absent from its walls, until recently. The Cherokee National History Museum in

By Melissa Alonso, CNN US Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 100 Cuban migrants after multiple vessels reached land in South Florida over Labor Day weekend, as Cuba grapples with its worst shortage of food and medicine in decades and runaway inflation. On Monday, Border Patrol agents took into custody 15 migrants — 13 men

By Dakin Andone, CNN More than 50 million people across the American West are under heat alerts Tuesday, as a prolonged heat wave continues to grip the region, prompting record high temperatures and upending daily life. Californians have been warned to prepare for rolling blackouts and asked to conserve energy. Wildfires have ripped across the

By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A hiker in Arizona died and five others were rescued Monday after getting lost on trails and suffering heat exhaustion as triple-digit temperatures gripped the region, officials said. A man in his 20s was pronounced dead after being taken to a local hospital, according to Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Monica